Umbrella.



E. CALUSINSKL UMBRELLA. APPLICATION nLED Nov. 10. 19.

j 9 &MW Un Patented Apr. 23, 1918.

TTNTTE sanni n s is DWARD CAL'USINSKI, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

UMBRELLA.

Application filed November 10, 1917. Serial No. 201,295.

To aZZ whom it may Oonccrn:

lBe it known 'that lt, EDWARD CALUsINsKI, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State r wings.

Figure 1 is a Vertical side elevation of a fragment of an umbrella frame constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention, the parts being shown as disposed When the frame is'spread;

Fig. 2 is a View of certain of the parts disclosed in Fig. 1 and shown in a partially folded position;

lFig. 3 is a Vertical section on an enlarged scale of the telescopic members forming a portion of the cane shown in Fig. 2;

Fig. l is a detail View 'showing in perspective, the hinge forming the junction of two partsof the folding loraces;

Fig 5 is a view showing the upper end of the umbrella cane and a rib of the umhrella folded;

F ig. 6 is a detail view showing hinged ends of sections of the rih;

Fig. 7 is a detail View showing in perspective, a sliding hinge member with which the hrace is provided.

Description.

respectively. The end section 13 is main taineol in proper alinement with the median section 14- by a brace section 17. The race section 17 is pivotally connected by a pin 18,

with a loracket 19 rigidly secured to the section 13. The inner end of the bracket 19 is slightly curved in correspondence with the curved end 20 of the median section 14.

The end of the hrace section 17 opposite to that attached to the bracket 19, is pivotally connected to a sliding loop 21. The loop 21 moves lengthwise of the median section 14. The pin 22 which secures the brace section 17 to the loop 21, also holds pivotally connected with the said loop, a short arm 23.

As seen best in Fig. 4 of the drawings, the arm. 23 has an Offset 24, the end whereof is pivoted by means of a pin 25, to a bifurcated oflset 26 inte rrally formed with the brace section 27. The section 27 is pivotally mounted in a Crown ring 28, said ring being shaped in conformity with the Crown ring 29, to which the inner section 12 of the ninlorella ril) is pivotally attached. The means for attaching the lorace 27 and the section 12 to their respective Crown ring, is that employed in the usual construction of umbrellas.

To steadythe construction and more particularly the outer terminal of the section 12, a spreader hrace 30 is pivotally secured to the section 12 and to a brackct 31 mounted on the brace section 27.

The Crown rings 28, 29 and 32 are fixedly mounted on tuhular sections 33 and 34 and the sleeve 35. The sections 33 and 34 are telescopically united, the sleeve 35 being slidably mounted on the section 33 and supported and guided in its movement thereon hy a pin 36 and a slot 37 formed in said section 33.

The sleeve 35 is operatively connected with the hrace section 27 by spreading rods 38. The rods 38 are each pivotally connected with a fiXed clip 39 On the section 27.

The tuloular section 33 at the lower end, hasa screw-threaded section 40, the threads whereof register with threads formed .in the end of the cane 41, which has a handle 42. The combined length of the cane 11 and handle -12 equals the comhined length of the tuhular sections 33 and 34: when the same are folded to the position shown in Fi e. 5

Of the drawings. It will he understood that age formed by the telescoped sections 33 and with until the same is in' 34: and the folded ribs and braces therefor. As shown best in Fig. 5 of the drawings, the short arm 23, and' oifsets 24' and 26 thereof, When folded, envelop the rib sections 12 and 14: and the spreader brace 30. The ofl'sets 24 and 26 are alined to accommodate the disposition' of the 'rib sections and brace when' folded.

It will also be observed that a similar office is performed'by the curved portions .of the braeket 19 and curved end 20 for the 'br-ace section 17 and short arm 23. e'rence to Fig. 5 of the drawings, lt will be By retseen that the' cnrvedportions of the said bracket and curved'end maintain the sections 13 and 14.2 'in spaced relation to *per- 'mit the unleafing -therebetween of the said brace section and short arm.

The cover for the umbrella rame may be permanently secured to the ribs and'seetions thereof. Care is exercised to secure said cover to the sections 12, 13 and 14; and to the pivoted junctions thereof so that the cover jnXta-p'osed to these junctions will be moved therewith to carry the portion of the cover to which they are connected incon'- formity with the disposition'of 'the rib seetions; r

To place the nmbrella in service, the cane 411 ispreliminarily secured to' the tubnlar section33. dle 42 in one hand, with the other hand moves the sleeve 35 outward along the sleeve 33, being guided in its movement by the slot 37. 'Each of' the-rods 38 presses upon one of the brace sections 27 and parts con nected therewith to elevate the tnbular sec tion 34 and crown ring 29 connected therethe position shown in Fig. 1.

'During the movement of the section 34 and partlyindncing the same, the rib section 12 is spread to its-outer position and the seeti'ons l i and 13 are relatively unfolded and straightened to form with the section 12,' the slightly 'eurved rib structure shown in the drawings. to unfold from the section 13, swinging on the -pivot pin 15 by -the pressure exerted by the spreader bar'30 on the-one hand, and the pull exerted by the short arm' 23 and brace 27 on the other, said pull being applied to the lOOps'21. The sections 13 are moved relatively to the sections 14 from the position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, to the positions ,shown successively in Figs. 2 and 5, by the brace section 17, which is drawn lengthwise 'of the' rib section 14 by the pressnre exerted thereon.

It will be nnderstood that the Various operations' thus detailed occur simultaneously The operator holding the han-- The section 14: is induced' and as far as the operator is concerned, the opening of an Umbrella constructed and aranged in accordance With the present in- Vention, resembles the operation performed in unfolding the conventional umbrella. Nhen the sleeve is raised to the upper end of the slot 37, the pin 36 passes around the hook end 44 and rests in the depressed end 35 of said hook end.

When it s desired to lower the umbrella, the sleeve 35 is manipulated to lift the pin 36 out of the depressed end of the slot 37. The sleeve is then drawn down on the, section 33 until the pin 36 is disposed at the lower end of the slot 37. During this movement, it will be noted that the rod 33 depresses the outer end of the brace seetion 27, so that the tnbular section 31- is depressed and the various parts of the ribs and brace construction are drawn to the position shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings.

O Zaims.

1. An umbrella comprising a plnrality of ribs, said ribs embodying three pivotally connected sections, the middle section being' arranged to fold on the connecting sections from opposite ends thereof, plurality of braees, each brace having three pivotally connected sections, the end sections of each of said braces ferming' lateral inelosiug members for one of said ribs when folded, and a plurality of connecting members operatively conneeting the sections of said braces and the sections of said ribs to cause said ribs and said brace sections to operate in correspondence.

2. An nmbrella coniprising a plurality o'l ribs, said ribs embodying' three pivotally connected sections, the middle section being' arranged to fold in the connecting sections from opposite ends thereof, a plurality of braces, each brace having three pivotally connected sections, the end sections of each of said braces ferming lateral inelosing members for one of said rbs when folded, a plurality of Conneeting members operatively connecting the sections of said braces and the sections of said ribs to cause said ribs and said brace sections to operate in correspondence, and means for raising and lowering the inner ends of said braees for spreading said braces and ribs connected therewith.

3. An umbrella eomprising a plurality of ribs, said ribs embodyinn' three pivotally connected sections, the middle section being; arranged to fold on the eonnectingz sections from opposite ends thereof, a plurality of braces, each brace having three pivotally connected sections, the end sections of each of said braces ferming lateral inclosinp; members' for one of said ribs when folded, a plnrality of connecting members opermemm :wam

ativelyconnecting the sections of said braces and the inner ends thereof in position to and the sections of said ribs to cause said Inaintain the spread relation of said ribs and ribs and said brace sections to operate in said braces.

correspondence, means for raising and lOW- EDWARD CALUSINSKI. ering the inner ends of said braces for Witnesses:

spreading said braces and ribs connected KAROL KURATKOWSKI,

therewith, and means for looking said braces BERNARD G. MATZ.

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